AXON, William Edward Armitage (1846-1913) Manchester 1861-1874 (DL 1867) He was subsequently on the staff of the Manchester Guardian and was the author of Annals of Manchester (1886). He was the father of Ernest and the grandfather of Geoffrey.
R Walmsley 'Dr Axon - Manchester bookman' (Manchester Review, Summer/Autumn 1964, pp138-154).
Brian Charles Hollingworth, ‘Axon, William Edward Armytage (1846–1913)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57406, accessed 31 Aug 2008]
Manchester 1861-1874 (DL 1867)
He was subsequently on the staff of the Manchester Guardian and was the author of Annals of Manchester (1886). He was the father of Ernest and the grandfather of Geoffrey.
R Walmsley 'Dr Axon - Manchester bookman' (Manchester Review, Summer/Autumn 1964, pp138-154).
Brian Charles Hollingworth, ‘Axon, William Edward Armytage (1846–1913)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57406, accessed 31 Aug 2008]